Health Unions Demand a 30% Increase in Doctors’ Salaries

Doctors claim that the salaries they receive are low compared to the years of training costs and the responsibility for each patient. Although the authorities have announced a 15-18% salary increase, medical workers say the salaries do not cover living and family expenses, radiomoldova.md reports. Moreover, unions at the local level claim that they have made new proposals to the relevant parliamentary committees to consider the increases included in next yearэs draft budget, on which they have already voted in the first reading. The Confederation of Trade Unions argues that the increase for health care workers should be 30%. Doctors’ salaries will increase, but not to the same extent for all employees of the medical system. According to local unions, those who are financed from the state budget will receive 18% higher salaries, while those who are paid from compulsory health insurance funds will receive salaries 15% higher. Medical system officials welcome the raise, but say it’s not enough compared to the years and years of study and the cost and responsibility for each life. “Any wage increase is welcome. There are workers who rent, pay loans, and obviously these promised 15% do not meet those needs,” said Galina Korcha, a neurologist. The National Confederation of Trade Unions says it will not cede and will try to persuade the authorities to agree to a bigger increase than the one in the draft budget law for 2025, voted in the first reading. The country’s medical system employs 64,000 people.